Ramses the Damned: The Ardour of Cleopatra

From the long-lasting and bestselling creator of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new story of historical feuds and fashionable passions.

Ramses the Nice, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal along with his bride-to-be, he’s swept up in a fierce and lethal battle of wills and psyches in opposition to the once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the identical perilous elixir whose unworldly pressure brings the useless again to life. However as these historical rulers defy each other of their quest to know the powers of the unusual elixir, they’re haunted by a mysterious presence even older and extra highly effective than they, a determine drawn forth from the mists of historical past who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia outdated. This can be a determine who dominated over an historical kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme information of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. She stands out as the just one who can give away to Ramses and Cleopatra the important thing to their immortality—and the secrets and techniques of the miraculous, unknowable, infinite expanse of the universe.